Edwin Van Meter CHAMPION

(1890-1976)

CHAMPION, Edwin Van Meter,
a Representative from Illinois; born in Mansfield, Piatt County,
Ill., September 18, 1890; attended the public schools; was
graduated from the law department of the University of Illinois at
Urbana, 1912; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced
practice in Peoria, Ill.; during the First World War entered the
Officers’ Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, Ill., on May 15,
1917; commissioned second lieutenant and assigned to service
overseas with the Three Hundred and Forty-first Infantry, Company
C, Eighty-sixth Division; discharged with rank of captain on
February 6, 1919; served as assistant State’s attorney of
Peoria County, Ill., in 1919 and 1920 and as State’s attorney
1932-1936; president of the Illinois State’s Attorneys’
Association in 1935; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth
Congress (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1939); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; resumed the
practice of law in Peoria, Ill., where he died February 11, 1976;
entombment in Springdale Mausoleum.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present